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Bill	Local agencies: open meetings: teleconferences.	(1) The Ralph M. Brown Act requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a legislative body of a local agency be open and public and all persons be permitted to attend. The act authorizes a legislative body to use teleconferencing, subject to specified requirements, including that each teleconference location be accessible to the public and that at least a quorum of the members of the body participate from locations within the boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 475	California SB 475 (20112012)	bill	Local agencies: open meetings: teleconferences.	enacted	Wright	11	32	8	2011-02-17	2012-08-28	openstates	ocd-bill/39af2d34-ad3b-4bae-aa0f-c012807df37f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB475	b7c47ee5998c0ff54ca1777cf619bc82dc46018d1eb52cb1086b04bc6c85a145	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 475 (20112012) — Local agencies: open meetings: teleconferences.

(1) The Ralph M. Brown Act requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a legislative body of a local agency be open and public and all persons be permitted to attend. The act authorizes a legislative body to use teleconferencing, subject to specified requirements, including that each teleconference location be accessible to the public and that at least a quorum of the members of the body participate from locations within the boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 02/17/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/12/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/03/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/22/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/06/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 06/07/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 06/20/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/28/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. SB475 (committee substitute) — source
11. 08/14/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• From committee: That the Assembly Amendments be concurred in. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Set second hearing. Failed passage. Reconsideration granted. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 6–2 (pass) · upper
• SB 475 Wright Senate Third Reading By BRADFORD — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 26–4 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 3–2 (fail) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB475 Wright Concurrence — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Wright — primary (person)
• Emmerson — author (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2011-02-17 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2011-02-18 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
• 2011-03-03 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2011-03-09 Set for hearing April 6.
• 2011-03-21 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-03-31 Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2011-04-01 Set for hearing April 27.
• 2011-04-04 Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2011-04-12 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-05-02 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 2. Page 762.) (April 27). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-03 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-05-09 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 26. Noes 4. Page 899.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-05-09 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2011-05-19 Referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2011-06-06 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-06-14 Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2011-06-20 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-06-29 Set, second hearing. Failed passage in committee. Reconsideration granted. committee-failure
• 2012-05-22 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-06-07 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-06-13 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 13). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-06-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-06-28 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5524.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-06-28 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2012-07-02 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. referral-committee
• 2012-07-06 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 4306.) Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2012-07-19 Set for hearing August 8.
• 2012-08-08 From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 4455.) committee-passage
• 2012-08-13 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4466.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2012-08-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-08-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 209, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/39af2d34-ad3b-4bae-aa0f-c012807df37f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).